> But first I would like to ask how satisfied people are with their > itaniums. Do you get the performance you expected? > Does compiled code take good advantage of the multiple > execution units?
I haven't done any formal measurements, but it seems to me that since we started the Debian port ~3 years ago, the toolchain, kernels, etc have improved dramatically. At gcc-summit there were a lot of discussions and interest in improving gcc to take advantage of the ia64 architecture, so I suspect things will continue to improve. > How complete is the debian distro for ia64? Same as for ia32? You can see some stats at http://buildd.debian.org/stats/ > I tend to KDE for the desktop and would plan to use the > QuadroPro Nvidia card. I see on Nvidia site they do have > the driver set. Any problems? The free nv driver that comes with xfree86 works fine, but the 3d performance is fairly poor. I have had some problems using hardware glx with the binary nvidia driver, but i haven't tried it recently. i know others have gotten it to work tho... my 2 cents :) randolph -- Randolph Chung Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports http://www.tausq.org/
